Statue and Legacy
A decaying sculpture of Miller, in the title role of Sunny, can still be seen atop the old I. Miller Building on West 46th Street just off Broadway in Manhattan.
In the only published biography of Marilyn Miller, author Warren G. Harris called her "Ziegfeld's most dazzling star" and the premier musical comedy star of the Jazz Age. "She had rivals who may have been better dancers, singers, actresses, or mimics, but no one individual could equal her when it came to combining all those talents."
One of the poems from Patti Smith's 1972 book Seventh Heaven is called "Marilyn Miller".
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“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one’s future must be hewn.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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